In Defense of Comic Sans
October 18, 2012 -I don’t want to always get defensive of the underdog, but I gotta take a wee stand for Comic Sans. I will readily admit it... View Article
I don’t want to always get defensive of the underdog, but I gotta take a wee stand for Comic Sans. I will readily admit it... View Article
“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to... View Article
I have a fun idea! I want to build a webpage using only user submitted code / content. Here are some rules I’d like to... View Article
Recently .net Magazine posted a very interesting article about the origin of some of the more famous structural HTML5 tags (eg. header, nav, section, etc).... View Article
This weekend was the second WordCamp Toronto (#wcto), which I attended with my esteemed colleague Rob Geldhof. The turn out was pretty impressive, especially considering... View Article
By all measures I have a very blessed life! The timing of my birth and the advent of the technology have worked out amazingly! I... View Article
Well. That lasted nearly ten days. After boldly declaring an intention to no longer carry a phone my family was faced with a brief but... View Article
Today it was announced that in November Google Apps (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, etc) will stop supporting IE8. This is astounding as IE9 is pretty solid... View Article
I’m a bit of a gadget nerd. This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows me as I’m often testing sites on devices... View Article
Today I’m showing our PMs how to use WordPress!!! FTW!
Graham Kennery showed me this… http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/CSS3FullscreenSlideshow/index.html These images scale to browser size – this means that images can look pretty crappy when scaled up. But... View Article
I had a terribly realization recently: my biggest hobby for the last couple years has been “making websites”. Sadly, that’s also what I do for... View Article
Good help can be so hard to find. That’s how I often feel about plugins. It’s a huge relief to find one that really works... View Article
I love thinking about bizarre scenarios. What if it became possible for example for you to know everything on the Internet!? In this hypothetical I’m... View Article
My mind was blown today by Lea Verou’s gallery of pure CSS backgrounds. At first I thought these were larger than using images, but I... View Article
This weekend Google Analytics announced a few new features including a mobile app, app usage tracking, and a couple other things that will make stats... View Article
I love my family. In recent weeks we’ve gone through a difficult time. It’s awesome to get through circumstances together and realize you’ve been made... View Article
I love hypothetical what-ifs. Over the years I’ve had some great conversations come out of them, here’s my latest which stumps me. Would you quit... View Article
My colleague Paul has done it again. He showed me a very strange thing in the new Firefox inspector (not to be confused with Firebug).... View Article
Gzip is a GNU zip compression that can be applied to files (according to this Wikipedia article that made me cross-eyed by the second sentence).... View Article
It’s probably obvious where I stand on this topic: I was the author of CSS-Tricks post ‘Saving the Day with Scoped CSS‘, and I got an... View Article
HTML5 Offers ‘Scoped’ CSS for Precision Styling Scoped CSS is getting a bit more coverage since my recent CSS-Tricks post, and today was featured on... View Article